locating elements by AutomationId #360
Description
I have a form (see picture 1) with a text box I have highlighted. I ran inspect.exe on it (see picture 2). I am using winium but when I do a
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@AutomationId = 'ACCT-004-CFLDpubRequestOutputName']")); it does not find anything.
I can locate this element by trial and error doing a brute force find and doing a clear() and see if it clears the box. I found the element and did a getAttribute() on "LocalizedControlType" which returned "edit". But when I do a getAttribute("AutomationId") it returns null. The same happens for all the elements I try this on with non-null AutomationIds yet they are all null.
I can find things other ways, for instance a check box, but more than 1 checkbox is found and I have to just give an index (like eles.get(2)) which can always change. There also could be other text entry boxes besides the one above so I do not like using vague search criteria.
Has anyone else reported AutomationId not working with Winium?